Background
Dalia Atlas was born on the 14th of November, 1935 in Haifa, Israel.
Dalia Atlas
Dalia Atlas
Dalia Atlas was born on the 14th of November, 1935 in Haifa, Israel.
Dalia Atlas graduated from the Music Academy of Jerusalem and studied conducting with the most distinguished Maestros abroad.
In her own native country, Israel, Dalia Atlas was the founder of many musical and cultural organizations, orchestras and choirs, professional and educational, where she was Music Director and Principal Conductor for many years and professor at the Technion. She was also invited to the MIT several times as a guest professor.
During the Gulf War, when evening concerts in Israel were impossible, Dalia Atlas formed a new orchestra consisting of new immigrants from Russia - the Atlas Camerata Orchestra, with whom she has toured and recorded. For that orchestra, she dedicated and recorded her orchestral arrangement of Schubert's String Quintet, Op. 163, which was broadcasted worldwide and won much critical praise.
Special attention was given to Dalia Atlas' philanthropic ideals by traveling voluntarily all over the country for twenty-five years with her orchestras "Pro Musica Orchestra, Israel" and "Atlas Camerata", promoting music education for children and in concert halls. Her research on the music of Ernest Bloch resulted in her undertaking the promotion and recordings of the composer's neglected compositions.
Dalia Atlas recorded 25 neglected orchestral works by Ernest Bloch for ASV and Naxos. She is the founder and the Head of "The Ernest Bloch Society in Israel" as well as "Honorary Vice President" of the "Ernest Bloch International Society", London, UK.
Since 2005 Dalia Atlas decided to terminate all her permanent positions in order to share her wide repertoire and experience as a guest conductor all over the world with orchestras, operas, and festivals.
Quotes from others about the person
Lord Yehudi Menuhin wrote: "Professor Dalia Atlas is one of the most effective, impressive and capable conductors I know..." "She is thus an all-round musician, whom I can recommend without hesitation."
The music critic Donald Vroon wrote about her in the American Record Guide as: "One of today's finer conductors."
